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My question simply implied that I was unsure exactly what he offered. Does he offer full-training, or am I going to go for one class, learn some techniques, and that's it? Since my Shotokan dojo was from white to black, I was unsure what made his teaching style different. Will I still progress like that?

For information purposes, I reside in Miami, FL. I messaged the AKI directed by Kaicho Hoosain Narker about Ashihara dojos down here in Miami. He told me there were none, and that I should look into their online training courses(I would prefer a more hands-on approach, studying directly with a sensei in the same vicinity). After a few conversations, our messages were forwared to Shihan Tony Martinez up in Homestead. I began speaking to him, and I told him that I have been out of karate for a while now. The last time I practiced karate was when I was 13/14. I reached 1st Dan Black Belt in Shotokan Karate, but I have not trained since due to personal reasons. After some personal information regarding myself and my interests in getting back into karate, I told him about my interest in training Ashihara. I was informed that he does not do classes out of a dojo. I wanted to get a bit more information regarding that - how everything works, what he does, price of classes, etc. This is what he said in response back to me - "I'm the technical adviser for Ashihara Karate, I only work with black belts to introduce Ashihara Karate, I normally just have a person come to my home and I run an evaluation session to determine the level of experience and technique. I normally work with improving technique and yes we look inside the technique (Bunkai) with out that aspect the training is useless. I no not charge anything which gives me the right to refuse to train an individual. Write back if you are interested." I have yet to respond back to him. I need some guidance. What should I do? I am interested in learning Ashihara, but there are no dojos down here where I live, and I would prefer hands-on than training online. Any help? I mean, I might be overthinking this, but it sounds to me like he doesn't offer "classes", but probably just some technique learning/training, etc. I was really interested in learning fully, going from rank to rank, etc. Get the full experience of training Ashihara. But do I really need to take full classes? I need some guidance.